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The genetics of barley low-tillering mutants: low number of tillers-1 (lnt1).
TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik - 1 Aug 2010
Dabbert Timothy, Okagaki Ron J, Cho Seungho, Heinen Shane, Boddu Jayanand, Muehlbauer Gary J
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Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) carrying recessive mutations at the Low number of tillers1 (Lnt1) gene does not develop secondary tillers and only develops one to four tillers by maturity. Double mutant analysis determined that the lnt1 mutant was epistatic to five of the six low and high tillering mutants tested. Double mutants of lnt1 and the low tillering mutant intermedium-b (int-b) resulted in a uniculm plant,...
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